At Helm’s Deep.
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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“We all believe with the heart and confess with the mouth that there is one only simple and spiritual Being, which we call God; and that He IS (did you get that, …IS) eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, almighty, perfectly wise, just, good, and the overflowing fountain of all good.”
Yes, and what happened to predestination too? This is the type of Semi-Pelagianism which Luther lambasted as worst than full-blown Pelagianism in the Bondage of the Will.
Is it just me, or does Wright seem to be a bit of an existentialist, as in ‘existence precedes essence?’ For example, isn’t Wright placing the act of covenant faithfulness before His being righteous? I know this doesn’t put Wright all the way into the camp of existentialism; that is why I say “a bit of an existentialist.”
Thank you, Paul! (and Dr. Clark)….can’t we hear the first Article of the Belgic Confession sounding as the loud horn on the light house guiding us into safety yet again?……”We all believe with the heart and confess with the mouth that there is one only simple and spiritual Being, which we call God; and that He IS (did you get that, …IS) eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, almighty, perfectly wise, just, good, and the overflowing fountain of all good.”
Once again our doctrinal standards get it right. God does in perfect, harmonious accord with who He is.
So, Jesus is no Saviour; He died on the Cross as the Example, to be imitated. He persevered to the end by the Spirit Who had descended at the river of Jordan; likewise, we must lead a Spirit-driven life to procure the favour of God on Judgment Day.
Ergo, Wright is a joke. We must laugh at him at times. Seriously, his theology is third-rate, just like the over-rated John Henry Newman, one of the worst theologians of the 20th century.